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Now let's come up with a good name for this MMPO with partial symmetric completion. Actually we<br>
need a good technical name as well as a catchy name for public proposal.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is indeed a good method. In simple parlance, you want the candidate who is least disliked against any other candidate, counting equal bottom as half-disliked. So I suggest "Least Regret Voting" as a name.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Unfortunately, this philosophy -- choosing the least-worst -- is less intuitively-appealing to most people than majoritarian philosophies. If I didn't know how the two systems worked, I'd probably be more inclined to like a system called "Majority Judgment" than a system called "Least Regret Voting". </div>
<div><br></div><div>(Actually, even knowing their content, I'd still probably pick MJ; though I'd pick LRV if you modified it slightly by using a ballot with meaningful rating categories, which is perfectly compatible with the system. I'll still be pushing MJ and SODA over rated-LRV, though, until there's at least a few dozen people in the world not on this list who've heard of LRV. Anyway, regardless of which methods I support, I still think it's a pity that the naming has an inherent bias towards MJ over LRV; the systems should win or lose on their merits, not on their names.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>As for a technical name... I guess I'd choose "BSC-MMPO", Bottom-symmetrically-completed etc. But I'm one who's perfectly happy to call MJ, "MJ", rather than "Cardinal Median//Median Drop Median" or some such technically-descriptive name. So I don't really care about the technical names.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Jameson</div><div><br></div><div>ps. I know that BR fans might object to the different definition of "regret" implicit in calling it LRV; but I was never a fan of the "BR" name myself so I can't say I worry about that. BR is a great idea but, I feel, a poor name.</div>
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